Music

It’s within these breaks of writing my English final and studying for my math test that I realize the one of my two biggest truths. It is that music matters more than anything else in this world. I think of my English paper and think that while all this stuff is very interesting and challenging my intellect at the end of the day it will never matter. But music can set your soul on fire and put peace in your heart by the realization that we are not alone in this world. It helps me realize that we are not connected by science or math or literature but by music. Literature can get mixed up by translation. Math means nothing standing alone and science, while very important, can be equally destructive as helpful plus it means very little to people beyond scientist. But music means something to everyone. I means something to you when you’re driving in your car with you friends or the lover of your dreams. I means something to you before you take a test as you’re trying to calm down or psych yourself. It means something to you when you don’t think you can live another day of your life. It does what math could never do; mean something standing alone. It does what science could never do; it means something to everyone in way that could never hurt us. It does what literature could never do; music doesn’t need to be translated into different languages. Sometimes I feel like there is the world around me. There is my body. And then… there is something deeper than that… my soul as corny as that sounds. And when I sing or listen to music or play a few simple chords on the guitar it touches my soul and I feel like music is dragging my soul out and presenting it to the world. I begin to wonder if everyone else feels that way. I pray everyday they can understand this but I know some people don’t. I feel in moments like these that music is what was sent of this earth to do and no matter the obstacle I can’t give up. This is what Beethoven though. Even when completely death, he knew that was what he was supposed to do. Fate was knocking on his door and he answered it. He died happy saying what he felt like he was meant to say to the world, trying to get them to understand the message that math, literature or science could never figure out.

“Without music, life would be a mistake”- Friedrich Nietzsche